Rottest vs Wottest - What's the difference?
rottest | wottest |
(archaic) (rot)
To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
* Alexander Pope
To decline in function or utility.
To deteriorate in any way.
* Macaulay
* Thackeray
To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
* Milton
Verbal nonsense.
In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between rottest and wottest
is that rottest is (archaic) (rot) while wottest is (archaic).As verbs the difference between rottest and wottest
is that rottest is (archaic) (rot) while wottest is (archaic).rottest
English
Verb
(head)rot
English
Verb
(rott)- Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot .
- I hope they all rot in prison for what they've done.
- Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.
- Rot , poor bachelor, in your club.
- to rot vegetable fiber
Derived terms
* potter's rotNoun
(en noun)- His cattle must of rot and murrain die.